And that the intrepid space voyagers brought *bikinis* so they could frolic on the regolith.
To be fair, while the opening windows in the moonbase were one of the silliest things I've seen in an SF show, they wore bikinis a lot in the other episodes in the tanning salon place.
And considering that the whole premise of the show was absurd, complaining about minor issues like opening windows seems a bit over the top:).
I was only pointing out that 0123456 didn't say natively.
I rather thought that was implied; otherwise you might as well have said that Windows 7 runs PS2 games, because it can do in an emulator.
Though I'd accept merely running them playably, which no emulator/virtual machine I've tried so far can do with Carmageddon. Either the graphics are corrupt or it's too slow to play.
Because then 90% of old Windows apps won't run and since people only buy Windows to run Windows apps, they get pissed off.
It's bad enough with 64-bit Windows 7 where many games require hacks and workarounds or simply won't run at all in the case of old 16-bit games. I only use Windows on my laptop for games and video editing and given the incompatibility issues I'm not sure it's even worth bothering; the average older game seems about as likely to run in Wine as Windows.
Microsoft are screwed because they've allowed such bad programming practices in the past that they can either block them for security and have millions of users beating down their door because old apps no longer work, or they can allow those bad practices to continue so Windows remains an insecure piece of junk.
You do realize that that's what Direct2D and DirectWrite essentially are, right? Ways to render lines and fonts using the hardware instead of software rasterisers?
Wow! You mean like we were doing on Windows 3.0 in 1990?
When the heck did Windows _stop_ being hardware accelerated?
The Transputer suffered from a slow development cycle; by the time it shipped, each new part was behind mainstream CPUs.
Not really: when I was programming transputers they were running at 20-30MHz with integral floating point acceleration while the 'terminal' used to program them was a 12MHz 286. The T9000 was the development cycle disaster, prior to that they were doing pretty well in competition with mainstream CPUs.
What I think really killed them was Inmos, who didn't really seem to want to sell any. The only way the average Joe could program a Transputer was to spend thousands of pounds on a development kit, so they basically got consigned to the embedded market with little chance of going anywhere in mainstream computing (the Atari Transputer Workstation, for example, was canned after a few hundred sales).
20 CPUs sharing 1GB gives 50MB per CPU, which has more promise.
If I remember correctly the T800 had 6 or 12k of on-chip RAM, so compared to typical memory sizes of the era that's about the same (about 1% of 1MB vs around 1% of 4GB).
Right. Because if you've got tons of cash you're going to drive a Yaris because the TCO is low. Fark no. You're going to drive a nice ride. You can have sense, cash, and still want a high-end car. It's not an investment.
Which part of "If you can afford a new Merc, you can afford the gas to run it" is hard to understand?
If you can afford a new Merc, why would you buy an unproven electric car from a company which probably won't be around in five years just to save a few bucks on gas? Even you seem to agree that there is no rational justification for worrying about fuel economy if you're the kind of person who'd pay $50k for a Merc, yet you're claiming I said the opposite.
The Model S doesn't compete against a Yaris. It competes against the BMW 5 series and the Mercedes E class. You're not the target market.
If you can afford a new Merc, you can afford the gas to run it. If you can't afford the gas to run a half-decent ICE car then you can't afford $50k to buy an electric car.
So ultimatley the target market appears to be people with more money than sense; which obviously exists, but I doubt it's large enough to sustain a company like Tesla.
If Tesla's model works, Telsa won't need a network of thousands of independent dealerships, because the only function of the dealerships will be to provide test drives and occasional servicing. Dealerships will be profit centers, not loss centers, for the manufacturer.
So Tesla will not only have to fund cars, but also thousands of Tesla dealers around the world? I don't think that $200,000,000 is going to go very far in that case.
If you look at marketshare you'd soon realize that you live in a fantasy land.
What relevance does current market share have? Windows is just so 20th century, and Microsoft have shown no indication of being able to move on... it's not going to get substantially better, and people are going to increasingly move to the numerous alternatives now on offer.
Microsoft were important when they were the 800 pound gorilla who controlled the PC market; they no longer control the market and PCs are now considered last century's news by an increasingly large fraction of the population.
202,704 crashes in the latest version in the last 14 days.
And?
Firefox's installed base is >250,000,000 users according to a quick Google search, so if those crashes are random then it means that less than 0.1% of Firefox users saw a crash in the last two weeks. More likely a large fraction of them are systematic crashes due to some crappy addon.
Either way, a 0.1% chance of a crash in two weeks is a pretty strange definition of 'unstable'.
Are you saying that microsoft doesn't have excellent tie-ups with cronies in high-levels?
Surely only the third-rate cronies would want to be stuck lobbying for a company like Microsoft which is becoming increasingly irrelevant?
Does anyone outside Seattle really care what Microsoft thinks anymore? To me Windows is just some weird legacy system I have to interact with while there's Linux for real work and most of the 'shiny stuff' in the IT world these days is either on mobiles or the web.
Firefox leaks memory and eventually crashes Windows, or makes Windows unstable.
Yet back when I was still using Windows I'd typically only shut down Firefox because of a Firefox update requiring a restart or Windows Update requiriing a reboot. And I don't remember Firefox ever crashing.
Obviously it must crash or we wouldn't have those crash reports, but I haven't seen it crash on Windows in at least a couple of years. So I could hardly call it 'unstable'.
Unfortunately, all the browser vendors decided to implement this backwards and instead throw around ridiculously alarming warnings at the user if you dare use SSL for encryption only, and not verification.
There is nothing at all insightful about that post. If I go to connect to www.mybank.com and instead my connection is hijacked to xyz123.fubar.ru then I sure as hell want my web browser to scream and shout that the connection is invalid.
Not having my banking logon details stolen is a metric fsckload more important than people being able to log on to uncertified sites without adding an exception.
Can't say that I blame them... it's their industry and they're advocating for it - big surprise.
Uh, they apparently want to lobby Congress to pass a law which will prevent 'artists' from giving away things they've created.
If true, that is so mind-bogglingly retarded that I really don't know what else to say. Surely even Congress will have to laugh them out of the building?
Your sort has always been just about to leave, and you always will be.
Then when 'his sort' do actually leave the left start whining about how evil they are to leave and stop paying the taxes to fund welfare programs and how they must have new laws to prevent 'his sort' from taking their money with them when they go.
Britain, for example, has been having a mass exodus of 'his sort' over the last decade; America just hasn't degraded quite so far yet.
You don't really believe that advertising will lead to reduced prices rather than increased profits, do you?
You presumably also believe the government when they say 'by imposing a tax on widgets we'll be able to cut income tax' and then two years later income tax is back where it was and you also have the widget tax on top.
That said, in a modern-era game I don't have much of an objection to ads since we're bombarded with them in the real world so not having ads in the game world would seem unreal.
Either you trust them and you play their game, or you don't and you find some other way to invest your money. It would seem that generally the clientele are pretty pleased with their results.
The reason the stock market goes up is because more and more money goes into it. The reason more and more money goes into it is because governments around the world give preferential tax treatment to 'investments' in pension plans and the like, so people keep putting money in there in the hope that they'll get more back that way.
So, as usual, the root cause of the problem is the government funneling money into the markets through artificial incentives. Eventually people will start to realise it's a scam and stop throwing money away so that bankers can buy their third Porsche.
There's no reason they couldn't release a new version of Windows ever year, charge $50, and have everybody upgrade.
Why would I pay $50 a year to upgrade Windows on a $300 PC?
Personally I've never upgraded Windows on a PC I own, I just use whatever version comes with the computer until I get a new PC. Now that I only use Windows for games and video editing even a $10 a year Microsoft tax would be hard to justiy.
You contradict yourself. How "standard" (as in "pile of paper") can be superior to actually working implementation?
I hope you're not a software developer. The world is full of 'actual working implementations' which have caused years of pain for the sake of not spending a few days thinking it through on a 'pile of paper' before implementing, and then 'not having the time' to rewrite it once the blatant design flaws become obvious.
Most of the worst ideas in the history of the web have come from taking some web browser's 'working implementation' and making it part of a standard.
Making something bigger does not logically make it better: in fact, bigger often means worse. A five hundred pound girl might be superior to Natalie Portman in sumo wrestling, but I know which one I'd prefer to date.
The core assumption that users cared about filling correct metadata was wrong outside the research community (and even outside the IT research community). It will take off but you need software to fill in what was assumed users would do.
Now you just need to explain to me why I would _want_ my computer adding arbitrary information such as my location to every message I send.
"Hi mum, I'll be over once I've finished watching a <reference>Goatse</reference><tag>video</tag>"
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And that the intrepid space voyagers brought *bikinis* so they could frolic on the regolith.
To be fair, while the opening windows in the moonbase were one of the silliest things I've seen in an SF show, they wore bikinis a lot in the other episodes in the tanning salon place.
And considering that the whole premise of the show was absurd, complaining about minor issues like opening windows seems a bit over the top :).
I was only pointing out that 0123456 didn't say natively.
I rather thought that was implied; otherwise you might as well have said that Windows 7 runs PS2 games, because it can do in an emulator.
Though I'd accept merely running them playably, which no emulator/virtual machine I've tried so far can do with Carmageddon. Either the graphics are corrupt or it's too slow to play.
Because then 90% of old Windows apps won't run and since people only buy Windows to run Windows apps, they get pissed off.
It's bad enough with 64-bit Windows 7 where many games require hacks and workarounds or simply won't run at all in the case of old 16-bit games. I only use Windows on my laptop for games and video editing and given the incompatibility issues I'm not sure it's even worth bothering; the average older game seems about as likely to run in Wine as Windows.
Microsoft are screwed because they've allowed such bad programming practices in the past that they can either block them for security and have millions of users beating down their door because old apps no longer work, or they can allow those bad practices to continue so Windows remains an insecure piece of junk.
You do realize that that's what Direct2D and DirectWrite essentially are, right? Ways to render lines and fonts using the hardware instead of software rasterisers?
Wow! You mean like we were doing on Windows 3.0 in 1990?
When the heck did Windows _stop_ being hardware accelerated?
Are you sure? AFAIK no bank robber has ever been caught when escaping on a duck.
You make a good point there.
Why is it always cars for the analogies? Why not ducks? Or oranges?
It's not easy for a bank robber to escape on a duck.
The Transputer suffered from a slow development cycle; by the time it shipped, each new part was behind mainstream CPUs.
Not really: when I was programming transputers they were running at 20-30MHz with integral floating point acceleration while the 'terminal' used to program them was a 12MHz 286. The T9000 was the development cycle disaster, prior to that they were doing pretty well in competition with mainstream CPUs.
What I think really killed them was Inmos, who didn't really seem to want to sell any. The only way the average Joe could program a Transputer was to spend thousands of pounds on a development kit, so they basically got consigned to the embedded market with little chance of going anywhere in mainstream computing (the Atari Transputer Workstation, for example, was canned after a few hundred sales).
20 CPUs sharing 1GB gives 50MB per CPU, which has more promise.
If I remember correctly the T800 had 6 or 12k of on-chip RAM, so compared to typical memory sizes of the era that's about the same (about 1% of 1MB vs around 1% of 4GB).
Why do you assume that people who are buying these cars are ones that can't afford gas?
Which part of "the target market appears to be people with more money than sense" is hard to understand?
Right. Because if you've got tons of cash you're going to drive a Yaris because the TCO is low. Fark no. You're going to drive a nice ride. You can have sense, cash, and still want a high-end car. It's not an investment.
Which part of "If you can afford a new Merc, you can afford the gas to run it" is hard to understand?
If you can afford a new Merc, why would you buy an unproven electric car from a company which probably won't be around in five years just to save a few bucks on gas? Even you seem to agree that there is no rational justification for worrying about fuel economy if you're the kind of person who'd pay $50k for a Merc, yet you're claiming I said the opposite.
The Model S doesn't compete against a Yaris. It competes against the BMW 5 series and the Mercedes E class. You're not the target market.
If you can afford a new Merc, you can afford the gas to run it. If you can't afford the gas to run a half-decent ICE car then you can't afford $50k to buy an electric car.
So ultimatley the target market appears to be people with more money than sense; which obviously exists, but I doubt it's large enough to sustain a company like Tesla.
If Tesla's model works, Telsa won't need a network of thousands of independent dealerships, because the only function of the dealerships will be to provide test drives and occasional servicing. Dealerships will be profit centers, not loss centers, for the manufacturer.
So Tesla will not only have to fund cars, but also thousands of Tesla dealers around the world? I don't think that $200,000,000 is going to go very far in that case.
If you look at marketshare you'd soon realize that you live in a fantasy land.
What relevance does current market share have? Windows is just so 20th century, and Microsoft have shown no indication of being able to move on... it's not going to get substantially better, and people are going to increasingly move to the numerous alternatives now on offer.
Microsoft were important when they were the 800 pound gorilla who controlled the PC market; they no longer control the market and PCs are now considered last century's news by an increasingly large fraction of the population.
202,704 crashes in the latest version in the last 14 days.
And?
Firefox's installed base is >250,000,000 users according to a quick Google search, so if those crashes are random then it means that less than 0.1% of Firefox users saw a crash in the last two weeks. More likely a large fraction of them are systematic crashes due to some crappy addon.
Either way, a 0.1% chance of a crash in two weeks is a pretty strange definition of 'unstable'.
Are you saying that microsoft doesn't have excellent tie-ups with cronies in high-levels?
Surely only the third-rate cronies would want to be stuck lobbying for a company like Microsoft which is becoming increasingly irrelevant?
Does anyone outside Seattle really care what Microsoft thinks anymore? To me Windows is just some weird legacy system I have to interact with while there's Linux for real work and most of the 'shiny stuff' in the IT world these days is either on mobiles or the web.
Firefox leaks memory and eventually crashes Windows, or makes Windows unstable.
Yet back when I was still using Windows I'd typically only shut down Firefox because of a Firefox update requiring a restart or Windows Update requiriing a reboot. And I don't remember Firefox ever crashing.
Obviously it must crash or we wouldn't have those crash reports, but I haven't seen it crash on Windows in at least a couple of years. So I could hardly call it 'unstable'.
Unfortunately, all the browser vendors decided to implement this backwards and instead throw around ridiculously alarming warnings at the user if you dare use SSL for encryption only, and not verification.
There is nothing at all insightful about that post. If I go to connect to www.mybank.com and instead my connection is hijacked to xyz123.fubar.ru then I sure as hell want my web browser to scream and shout that the connection is invalid.
Not having my banking logon details stolen is a metric fsckload more important than people being able to log on to uncertified sites without adding an exception.
Can't say that I blame them... it's their industry and they're advocating for it - big surprise.
Uh, they apparently want to lobby Congress to pass a law which will prevent 'artists' from giving away things they've created.
If true, that is so mind-bogglingly retarded that I really don't know what else to say. Surely even Congress will have to laugh them out of the building?
Your sort has always been just about to leave, and you always will be.
Then when 'his sort' do actually leave the left start whining about how evil they are to leave and stop paying the taxes to fund welfare programs and how they must have new laws to prevent 'his sort' from taking their money with them when they go.
Britain, for example, has been having a mass exodus of 'his sort' over the last decade; America just hasn't degraded quite so far yet.
What if advertising makes the price cheaper?
You don't really believe that advertising will lead to reduced prices rather than increased profits, do you?
You presumably also believe the government when they say 'by imposing a tax on widgets we'll be able to cut income tax' and then two years later income tax is back where it was and you also have the widget tax on top.
That said, in a modern-era game I don't have much of an objection to ads since we're bombarded with them in the real world so not having ads in the game world would seem unreal.
Either you trust them and you play their game, or you don't and you find some other way to invest your money. It would seem that generally the clientele are pretty pleased with their results.
The reason the stock market goes up is because more and more money goes into it. The reason more and more money goes into it is because governments around the world give preferential tax treatment to 'investments' in pension plans and the like, so people keep putting money in there in the hope that they'll get more back that way.
So, as usual, the root cause of the problem is the government funneling money into the markets through artificial incentives. Eventually people will start to realise it's a scam and stop throwing money away so that bankers can buy their third Porsche.
There's no reason they couldn't release a new version of Windows ever year, charge $50, and have everybody upgrade.
Why would I pay $50 a year to upgrade Windows on a $300 PC?
Personally I've never upgraded Windows on a PC I own, I just use whatever version comes with the computer until I get a new PC. Now that I only use Windows for games and video editing even a $10 a year Microsoft tax would be hard to justiy.
The only reason it can be considered 'special' is because Danny Boyle and Cilian Murphy were attached to it.
Given Boyle's record, presumably that's 'special' in the 'special ed' sense.
You contradict yourself. How "standard" (as in "pile of paper") can be superior to actually working implementation?
I hope you're not a software developer. The world is full of 'actual working implementations' which have caused years of pain for the sake of not spending a few days thinking it through on a 'pile of paper' before implementing, and then 'not having the time' to rewrite it once the blatant design flaws become obvious.
Most of the worst ideas in the history of the web have come from taking some web browser's 'working implementation' and making it part of a standard.
HTML5 is more than vapourware, and provides new features that are useful to people making real-world websites.
I note you said 'people making websites' and not 'people using websites'. A better method of pushing ads down my throat is not a benefit to me.
Frankly, the obvious ways these 'new features' will be abused look like a good justification for going back to gopher.
That is not logically possible when XHTML is a subset of HTML5.
Making something bigger does not logically make it better: in fact, bigger often means worse. A five hundred pound girl might be superior to Natalie Portman in sumo wrestling, but I know which one I'd prefer to date.
The core assumption that users cared about filling correct metadata was wrong outside the research community (and even outside the IT research community). It will take off but you need software to fill in what was assumed users would do.
Now you just need to explain to me why I would _want_ my computer adding arbitrary information such as my location to every message I send.
"Hi mum, I'll be over once I've finished watching a <reference>Goatse</reference><tag>video</tag>"